{"id":1424328,"date":"2022-04-07T15:59:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T19:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1424328"},"modified":"2022-04-07T15:59:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T19:59:59","slug":"college-professor-claims-braves-tomahawk-chop-is-violence-toward-native-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/college-professor-claims-braves-tomahawk-chop-is-violence-toward-native-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"College Professor Claims Braves &#039;Tomahawk Chop&#039; is &#039;Violence&#039; Toward Native Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcollege-professor-claims-braves-tomahawk-chop-is-violence-toward-native-americans%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1424328&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">A Babson College professor penned an op-ed claiming that the Atlanta Braves fans performing the popular \u201cTomahawk Chop\u201d chant is \u201cviolence\u201d towards Native Americans ahead of MLB\u2019s opening day.<\/p>\n<p>In his Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/major-league-baseball-braves-team-name_n_624dee20e4b007d3845e7b9a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">editorial<\/a>, Kevin Bruyneel, a professor of politics at the Massachusetts-based school, exclaimed that even naming a sports team after a Native American symbol or tribe \u201cmocks\u201d indigenous traditions,\u201d celebrates \u201cgenocide,\u201d and will also \u201ctrivialize violence toward Indigenous people and the theft of their land.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>While Bruyneel was pleased that the Cleveland Indians finally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/07\/23\/cleveland-changes-name-from-indians-to-guardians\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dumped<\/a> their 107-year-old team name and will now be called the Cleveland Guardians, he was still furious that the Atlanta Braves have resisted the left\u2019s demands to scrap their name too.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/photos\/ted-turner-does-the-tomahawk-chop-during-game-1-of-the-national-picture-id2673754?k=20&#038;m=2673754&#038;s=612x612&#038;w=0&#038;h=19y3ZNkKGdput0BU3--zGnrPHm0aPW5oM2iy1fTFA0k=\" alt=\"Ted Turner does the tomahawk chop during Game 1 of the National League Division Series between the Chicago Cubs and the Atlanta Braves on September...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Ted Turner performing the Tomahawk Chop in 2003 (Jamie Squire\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Braves organization has made no change to its team name or logo or made any serious effort to get their fans to stop performing \u2018tomahawk chop\u2019 gestures \u2015 what they proudly call \u2018The Chop\u2019 \u2015 and chants that echo throughout the stands, as they did during last year\u2019s playoffs broadcast to millions of people,\u201d the leftist prof wrote.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Bruyneel posed a question: \u201cWhy does this practice of naming teams after Indigenous people and mocking their traditions continue well into the 21st century, even in the face of direct criticism that they are racist and offensive?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the Critical Race Theory-pushing \u201ceducator\u201d had an answer for that: It\u2019s \u201cracism,\u201d naturally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA major reason is that, despite notable success in the effort to end this practice,\u201d Bruyneel accused, \u201ca good portion of the American public does not see Indigenous people as their contemporaries, as people who live in and around them. For many fans, there are not enough Indigenous people around to offend, and in fact, according to many fans and team owners, these names actually \u2018honor\u2019 Indigenous people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There you have it. If you like the Atlanta Braves, you are a racist.<\/p>\n<p>Bruyneel explained that using native names as a way to \u201chonor\u201d them is still racist, no matter your stated intention because you are deadnaming Indians in the process.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When fans and owners say their team\u2019s name honors Indigenous people, one could ask: Well, why not \u201chonor\u201d other racial or ethnic minorities to this same degree and extent? What makes Indigenous people so worthy? The answer is that the so-called honor here is meant for people deemed to no longer exist as relevant people, to be long since dead. Through this colonialist logic, \u201chonoring\u201d means Indigenous people are rendered as the ghosts of a primitive past, noble savages who could not survive the U.S. \u201cmanifest destiny\u201d and its civilizational expansion, although they put up a good fight, like \u201cbraves\u201d \u201cwarriors\u201d and \u201cchiefs\u201d do<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And it is \u201cmore than racist,\u201d the lefty prof shrilly insists. It is about \u201cgenocide\u201d because when you use the names, you are saying that you have killed all native peoples so that you could steal their symbols and names.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/photos\/former-atlanta-braves-player-bob-horner-performs-the-ceremonial-first-picture-id949776912?k=20&#038;m=949776912&#038;s=612x612&#038;w=0&#038;h=YKVqi2ATrjMfLBIWcNrF1PkXeCBt3wNB3kS8WzTeJIM=\" alt=\"Former Atlanta Braves player Bob Horner performs the ceremonial first chop in the first inning of the game between the Atlanta Braves and the New...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Former Braves player Bob Horner does the Tomahawk Chop. (Mike Zarrilli\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>It is, he continues, because native people have been \u201cconsigned to the past,\u201d and is a past, \u201cof which are made legends in the form of cowboy-and-Indian movies and in naming teams after, well, Cowboys and Indians, or Redskins, or Braves, or Chiefs, or fill in the blank of the name of your local team, or consumer product, or town, city or state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Using Native names, Bruyneel continues, means that \u201cIndigenous people\u2019s lives today are not relevant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bruyneel goes on to assert:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It is certainly true that these names and images are offensive and denigrating, but there is a reason why they are primarily targeted at Indigenous people and not as much at other groups who experience racism in the United States. These names are popular because they are premised on the elimination, the nonexistence, of Indigenous people. They reinforce a genocidal logic and in their own way celebrate, under the banner of \u201chonoring,\u201d colonial conquest and violence toward Indigenous people and the theft of their land. In this regard, consider the historical context of the creation of these two MLB names, one triumphant, the other defunct.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt is important,\u201d Bruyneel added, \u201cto put this practice into historical context to understand that names such as the Braves are not just offensive; they are steeped in the blood of genocide and land theft of U.S. colonization that is not consigned to the past; it shapes and continues to the present.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the idea that enjoying the Atlanta Braves means you discount the lives of modern native people is a leap in logic that makes no sense. People are certainly smart enough to enjoy their baseball team without automatically hating, discounting, ignoring, or devaluing their fellow Americans who happen to be of indigenous heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Bruyneel concludes by praising the growing political influence that Native tribes are having across the country but insists that sports teams, such as the Braves, that are named after and use Native imagery make it harder for white people to take Native political movements seriously.<\/p>\n<p>But Bruyneel rambles on, nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you cannot see a people for who they are right now, how can you stand with them and take their claims seriously?\u201d Bruyneel wrote. \u201cThese team names and representations honor genocide by another name and help blind us to the reality and complexity of contemporary Indigenous people\u2019s lives and politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The leftist prof concludes by urging white to \u201cstep up to the plate\u201d and demand that all sports teams everywhere end the use of Native imagery in order not to \u201cdrown out the calls by Indigenous people for justice today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Babson College professor penned an op-ed claiming that the Atlanta Braves fans performing the popular \u201cTomahawk Chop\u201d chant is \u201cviolence\u201d towards Native Americans ahead of MLB\u2019s opening day. 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